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HARNESS PENDANT
Unique ID: PUBLIC-00B9AA
Object type certainty: Certain
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A complete and worn medieval heraldic harness pendant dating to c. late 13th - early 14th century) and attributed to the Suffolk De Seymour family.
Description: The pendant is in the form of a square topped shield (heater shield) with a suspension loop at 90° to the plane of the pendant at its apex. The obverse shows two inverted chevrons. with traces of red enamel remain in both. There is a blue three point 'file or label' usually indicating a first son, positioned across the upper chevron. The top left corner has an element of red enamel which seems likely to have transfered from another part of the chevrons. In between the two chevrons remains specks of black enamelling in four places and below the bottom cevron are remains of black or Sable enamelling in four places. In heraldic terms this blazon would be described as 'Ermine two chevrons Gules; in chief a label of three points Azure'.
Measurements: Length: 43mm, width: 26mm, 4mm thick and 11.6g in weight.
Discussion: These arms are shown as those of Sire De Seinmor (Seymour) in the Great, Parliamentary, or Bannerets' Roll of c. 1312 (Wagner, A. 1950). The arms are also found on a number of other rolls and documentation spanning the 13th-15th centuries associated with members of the De Seymours.
Find of note status
This is a find of note and has been designated: Publication ready
Class: heraldic
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Exactly AD 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 43 mm
Width: 26 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight: 11.6 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st November 2020
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Enamel
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with enamel
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Babergh (District)
Parish or ward: Monks Eleigh (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TL9648
Four figure Latitude: 52.09561561
Four figure longitude: 0.85993104
1:25K map: TL9648
1:10K map: TL94NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wagner, A. | 1950 | A Catalogue of English Mediaeval Rolls of Arms (Aspilogia I) | Woodbridge | Boydell Press |
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